WASHINGTON —Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) introduced the Same Day Voter Registration Act (H.R. 3276) and the Voter Access Protection Act (H.R. 3277) today to make it easier for Americans to register to vote by allowing same day registration at polling places for all federal elections and banning voter ID laws.

WASHINGTON – The Congressional Progressive Caucus, along with Democratic Members of the House Judiciary Committee and support from the Congressional Tri-Caucuses, today held a forum on family detention. The forum highlighted grave abuses experienced by women and children housed in for-profit detention facilities across the country.